horn
IPA: hˈɔrn
noun
- (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- An antler.
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- (slang, countable) A telephone.
- (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
- Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
- The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
- A surname.
- A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
- An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.
verb
- (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
- (transitive) To furnish with horns.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
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Examples of "horn" in Sentences
- The demon had a pair of horns and tusks.
- The color of the operculum is light horn.
- Descant horns are included in triple horns.
- It is similar in shape to the Cornucopia Horn.
- The natural horn is the ancestor of the modern horn.
- The rhinoceros horn is considered to be the most precious.
- It employs not only the F and B horns, but also a third, descant horn.
- This Horn of Plenty, or Cornucopia, was known as The Horn of Amalthaea.
- The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the horn.
- The goat's broken horn was transformed into the cornucopia or horn of plenty.
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